HGTV’s HOME TOWN host and designer Erin Napier is welcoming fall with a science project, her daughter’s horse drawing and a little backyard silliness from husband and co-host Ben Napier.
“Late September, still waiting for a crispy morning, braids, baby’s first science fair project, Helen’s horse doodle, yard ‘work,’ full moon and wild dogs, poetry, soup,” Erin wrote in an Oct. 4 Instagram post, gathering a collection of family moments into one breezy update.
The photos and videos offer a look at life with the couple’s daughters, Helen and Mae, as the family continues homeschooling. Rather than another explanation of their schooling choice, this post shares the smaller things filling their days: a child’s artwork, a project and time together outside.
EntertainmentNow reported that the collection includes Mae’s school project about rocks, Helen’s drawing and a photo of braided hair. Ben supplies the comic relief in a video, wearing a backpack leaf blower and directing a burst of air toward one of the girls.
That last bit puts Erin’s playful description of yard work in perspective. The HOME TOWN couple may spend their television hours repairing houses, but this update makes room for the kind of dad-and-daughter goofiness that has very little to do with getting a chore finished.
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On their HGTV series, the Napiers restore homes in Laurel, Mississippi, combining Erin’s design background with Ben’s building and woodworking skills. Here, though, Helen’s horse doodle and Mae’s project take the spotlight rather than a newly renovated room.
The October post follows an earlier glimpse of Ben’s role in their daughters’ education. On Sept. 9, Erin praised his teaching and described lessons that mix history, Scripture, math and poetry with a soundtrack that might surprise anyone picturing a conventional classroom.
“Imagine having the best elementary history, Bible, math and poetry teacher ever who tells you stories about the world that make you want to go see them in real life while you listen to spaghetti western soundtracks and that’s homeschool with @scotsman.co,” she wrote, tagging Ben.
Erin’s description puts curiosity alongside the schoolwork, with Bible lessons part of the mix rather than separate from family life. Her latest update adds a science project and Helen’s artwork to that picture without turning it into a prescription for every family.
Her wish to give the girls a hands-on childhood also predates these school-year posts. In an earlier HGTV tour of their Mississippi country house, Erin described wanting her daughters to spend time climbing trees, digging and splashing in puddles.
“When they come inside at the end of the day, I want their hair to be tangled and their bath water to be dirty,” she said.
The same tour showed Helen’s colorful artwork framed along the staircase and a reading nook upstairs. Those details make her newest horse drawing feel right at home: the girls’ creativity already has a place in the family’s surroundings.
For now, Erin is still waiting on that crisp fall morning. In the meantime, her family update has plenty to show for the days before it arrives — science, art, soup and a dad who can turn yard work into play.
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